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ENNIS man Tony Mulvey, who completed 50 years as a journalist with The Clare Champion last year, was honoured by the Clare Association in Dublin on Friday night.

IN nominating Kilfenora Céilí Band leader John Lynch as Clare Person of the Year for 2009, the Clare Association in Dublin showed their regard “for tradition, heritage and history, for ordinary people and small places and familiar things”.So said the well-known Kilfenora man when he addressed the large gathering.“I didn’t grow up playing music. I didn’t have a fiddle or a banjo. There was one fiddle on top of the dresser across from the range. That was my father’s. My aunts, Betty, Noreen and Judith, went to England in 1957 and my uncle, Gerry, went to the States in 1959. When he came back for a visit in 1963, there was a celebration. I was eight and I was on the outside looking in, disappointed that I couldn’t play,” he said.“I remember Sunday mornings, milking the cows before going to mass in Kilfenora and listening to Ciarán MacMathúna on the radio,” Lynch continued. “I remember the céilís in Kilfenora on …

THE collapse of the Celtic Tiger and the focus on the disaster in Haiti has had an unexpected effect on the street children and orphans of Africa. An inability to access help and funding is crippling the efforts of orphanages and rehabilitation centres to help some of Africa’s most vulnerable children.

A politician once said that there was no sex in Ireland until television came on the air and he may have been referring to The Late Late Show. It is the longest running show on Irish TV, on the air since 1962.

  The new year offered a world of new possibilities for nine-year-old Jack Caldwell as he was not only introduced to his very own golden retriever dog but his pet has given Jack a new lease of life.

For Thereze Benson’s parents, the trouble started every time their daughter peered through the window of the family pub on the Killaloe side of the town bridge.

While perfume might seem like just any other accessory, in actual fact the fragrance you choose can reveal a lot about your personality and qualities, so with Valentine’s Day approaching, the race is on to find that perfect bouquet.

Clare County Enterprise Board has just launched its 2010 training brochure, which outlines a range of new programmes being run by the organisation.